What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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